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Why Women Need to Weight Train*

Saturday, 25 May 2019, By Alex Anasson

Women are often looking for that fountain of youth or the best
and most effective way to lose weight and "tone up" and more often
than not will embark on a health and fitness plan with an excessive
amount of lettuce and cardio exercise to help them get there
and they often over look weights training because they "don't want
to get big" or "bulk up".

This is one of the biggest misconceptions in the health and
fitness world that must have been sent out as propaganda by the
weight lifting men so that women didn't show them up in the gym!!!
For women, weights training NEEDS to be an essential part of their
health and fitness program, with structured and regular weights
sessions actually helping women to change their body shape for the
better!!

Women do not have enough testosterone in their body and
generally speaking do not eat enough to "Bulk Up" and as a result
do not build muscle like men do! Weights training though is
beneficial to achieve the ever elusive "toned up" look as it will
help to build long lean muscle and decrease your body fat-allowing
you to see the muscles under the skin! The main benefit to weights
training though is that it builds and maintains muscle and this is
the key element to increasing your metabolism, even when you are at
rest, with an increased lean muscle mass your metabolism will burn
more energy. The more muscle you have the greater your
capacity to store carbohydrates which means you can eat more carbs
without them being converted into fat.

Another key reason for women doing weights training is the
ability for weights training to help prevent the on set of
Osteoporosis-a condition that affects 1.2 million Australians-with
three quarters of that number being women (according to
Osteoporosis Australia). Weights training helps to build bone
density and stimulates cell growth and calcium deposits.

So, ladies-for a couple of sessions a week-step away from the
treadmill and start lifting some weights to reap the benefits that
weights training can provide and ensure you have a well rounded
health and fitness plan delivering the results you're after!